What's your favorite scary movie?
CRUEL HISTORY

Ever since I was a kid, I was morbidly inclined. I always wanted to watch the scary movies that my parents watched, play the games they played, and grew up in a house of the 'weird' kids.

My dad and mother listened to Gothic music, Cult Classics, Horror films of many kinds. This may sound like a dream to all other outcasts but sadly my childhood was less than a dream. In way my retreat into horror was always going to happen, reminding me of better times with my mother. Things are better now of course, but you know how Generational Trauma is.

Aside from that, it took me til age 15 to properly step my toes into the warm bloody waters to watch horror without fear.

Before then mostly when I was under 12, I was often deeply scared of Saw and Chucky. The movie Splinter. The game series Fatal Frame. All have an odd sense of nostalgia and saftey now, even defining my taste in visuals and aesthetics with the grimey looks of Saw and Splinter. I am not in too much shock that Seed of Chucky and Bride of Chucky are my personal favorite films either, I am the BT in LGBT.

Recent Watch
MAXXXINE

"I will not accept a life I do not deserve"

Let me be transparent and say long time, no yapping about horror movies here. I've been more wanting to just chill and not worry about updating things everyday or waking second. Besides, I've been trying survive just like the lot of you. Aside from that, Let's yap about one of my most anticipated films of this year!

I've been waiting a while for this, being that I enjoyed X and, while a delayed watch, Pearl. I love love LOVE the X trilogy and the dedication to the time periods depicted in the films. Pearl is a stand out in terms of themes and style. I'm not gonna go into spoilers, other than the setting of The Night Stalker was such a good choice even if one who paid attention to the first movie could see the twist a mile away. Obvious twist or not, It followed the fears and stress of the 80's well. Their homework, they did.

I know for some, this has been a dud, but for me this is easily one of my films of the year. I was happy stimming once the movie was over for gods sake.
EVENT HORIZON

Okay so. Hear me out. What if I told you this movie is good as is.

Now that I've said that sinful statment to horror fans and lost media hunters, I do think that this movie is a damn solid one. Do I truly wish the now perma-lost scenes were restored? Yes and I DO think the movie would've gone that extra mile HOWEVER the movie as it currently stands is fine if in need of a few cut scenes here and there. The movies content is about as disturbing as people gas it to be, like straight up PLEASE DTDD this movie. I did it just in case and caught a trigger or two while I was watching so I could be ready for those scenes.

Not really much else to say other than this has been a to watch for god knows how long, it still makes me upset we may never see the movie as intended ever due to it being found in a fucking saltmine of all fucking things. And with how Anderson has talked about the film in modern times, a proper script-adaption for a remake probably ain't happening anytime soon either.

For posterity and those who want to read the original script in full, HERE it is! It's basically the closest will get to all the scenes being found. That being said...man I should dedicate a page to lost media and things I've been trying to find.

Recent Play
IB, MISAO, MAD FATHER; PLANNED

I'm lumping these three together due to them being huge hits in the early 10's and just how much I adore all three.

I've has such a monsterous itch to play Ib of late so I bought the remake along with Mad Father to make a perfect trilogy to RPG horror! I'll detail my current thoughts in a probable larger post but for now we shall wait and see when I have the brain to play such games.

I HAVE NO MOUTH AND I MUST SCREAM; PLANNED

One of those 'must play before you die' games

I know it's based off of a short story but truth be told, I'm unsure how to get a copy that my brain will latch onto...I've become a physical media junkie that I must hold my book to read it...that's a quirky way of saying my autism demands I stim with the page I must turn.

This one I have to sit on a bit as I think it may cause me a weeeeee bit too much distress. AM's hate speech is fire as hell tho lbr.
DEAD SPACE; ON HOLD

I'm streaming this game!

I haven't picked it back up in a hot second but god DAMN do I get why this was such a huge hit back in the day. It's scary and the plot is super interesting, keeps you well invested in each playthrough.

SANITARIUM; PLANNED

I have wanted to play this game for a rather long time. My first exposure to it was via PushingUpRoses' video on it! Go watch it, she's great.

But anyhow, I'd wanted to play it for a rather long time. I plan to play this soon before I restart my Phantasmagoria 2 playthrough I can't even BEGIN to remember where I was in that one, plus that game has lore with me.

Recent Read
TCM 2003 NOVEL; HOLD
Now, you may read that and say either:
"Wait the movie had a novelization?"
or
"How the hell did you get a copy of that.
it's 200+ USD on Ebay."

In my frustrating journey to see if an archive of the book was made in any shape or form, someone thankfully made an audiobook of it! In fact I'll just put it HERE for your listening...pleasure? I'll be honest and say that when I found out about this book browsing a TCM tag on SCRAPNICK's blog in her TCM tag cus...well the series had become a hyperfixation after my watch of TCM 2. But anyhow, I'd seen her post that she was reading the book and saw her self-reblog with the direct sentence. Literally the worst book I have ever read.
That's a MIGHTY accomplishment innit?

WELL. I'M THE TRASH MAN, I THROW AND EAT GARBAGE! Sometimes I adore the garbage, other times I do not. The other half of this was wondering just how badly my sugar Leatherface was treated in the book. I am literally going in blind to see just to defend my fictional murderous blorbo from the book.

So far the book has given me gnarly ass whiplash, from the prolouge dropping JFK then the Waco Siege then a fucking racial hate-crime of all things, I knew this was going to be a fucking doozy. I find myself off-put by the prose at times, not sure if it's doing a good job of describing things or it is over-compensating in description. I am not the best at reviewing books over film being honest.

I could've gone a million life times without having to hear the admittedly fast description of a cat's corpse after having a heavy-handed critisim of the meat industry and Slaughterhouses.

1 hour of 9 hours and 42 mins to go...god save me now.

MISERY; IN PROGRESS
This one of the books that's been rotting on my shelf since I was 14 at least. It was apart of my christmas gifts from my mother that year and I've still not finished it since starting it in 2021~

As for how I've been enjoying this one, I'd say it's a surprise how much it sucked me in. I was expecting to file it off as fine and that's all but Annie's mental is so interesting to see unfold. The actual survival instinct the Paul has is better than most stories with this setting or theme. He knows his way to survive is through placation and that makes this so enthralling.

I'm about 60% through this so I expect to finish it sooner rather than later if my ADHD allows it so.

AMERICAN PSYCHO; ON HOLD
For one of the more disgusting and disturbing pieces of literature, the most disturbing thing is Bateman's consumerism.

On a serious note, while I am enjoying my time with the book. It's been painful to read as someone who hates the rich and powerful but that is, afterall, the point and I'll sure as shit admit it's gotten its point across if maybe a bit too much across.

I've been reading this one aloud to my friends to help me get through the book, Its been a fun counter game and I may post the highlight of it sooner or later.

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